Copyright Notice
for Photographer James F. Harrington
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Images, writings and graphics created by James F. Harrington are the copyrighted work of James F. Harrington, of Saugus, Massachusetts - USA
Want to reproduce my images or writings? Ask permission please!
Call Jim Harrington at 781-244-5655.
The ability to obtain content from the Web, does not give one the right duplicate and republish it. Some people are just not aware of this. Others are aware of it, and do it anyway. The worst offenders do it to make money, from someone else's work! See the Hall of Shame below.
If you want to reproduce my pictures or writing call me and ask permission. Your specific use will determine the conditions for rights I may grant.
When "for profit" rights are requested, I usually ask fair market value, full payment of which would grant the rights. If you offer a product or service I may be willing to barter.
No fee "non-profit" use of my images may be granted but I'd likely require adjacent credit with hyper-linking to the page of my choosing, if the rights are for Web.
Unauthorized reproduction of my work which intended to make money or is included in a money making project is NOT OK. The Internet makes it easy to find duplicated work.
Teachers have contacted me about using my materials in printed form. For example, one teacher called to ask about printing multiple copies of my photography tips page. That type of use is encouraged and permission would not be required... as long pages are printed in full and as is, including the source URL and copyright notice.
Before duplicating material I've written or my photography anywhere, on the Web OR in print, call Jim Harrington at 781-244-5655 or e-mail jim at saugus dot net.
If your use is not for profit, I may grant usage right but with conditions, such as adjacent credit and or a link to the Web page of my choice.
Creating links from your Web pages
directly to my images is NOT OK.
There are acceptable uses of my work. If you want to print my pictures to block a stain on your wall or use them in a homework assignment, that's fine. Computer wallpaper etc. is acceptable but only for your own personal use.
If you intend to make multiple copies of my work for any purpose, ask permission. Call Jim at 781-244-5655.
Please read US Copyright law information and Copyright law Frequently Asked Questions
Photographs and Web pages do not need a copyright notice on them to be protected by copyright law. All original works are copyright protected as soon as they are created. They do not need to be registered to be covered by copyright law.
HALL OF SHAME
Many, many times I have discovered people who have copied my work (writing, images,graphics etc.) to enhance their Web sites. Some people just do not understand what copyright is all about. In some cases it was just poor judgment and inexperience with such things. In others cases it was, well...read on.
1.) Occasionally, I search for my images and text through Google's image search. A recent search there for "Square One Mall" images turned up an unauthorized use of my image on the State of Massachusetts Web site, Crimewatch section, of all places. My copyright notice and contact info had been cropped off the image. After e-mailing Christopher Coakley about the situation he claimed it was their camera that made the photo. On 5/4/04 Chris wrote that he'd have the photo removed to "avoid confusion". I offered to grant usage rights if they'd follow the proper channels but it seems they'd rather not.
2.) Someone at "digital slides dot net" made a word-for-word duplicate of my slide film scanning page to start a business... to compete against mine! Very poor judgment. They've since changed it around some, but only after repeated requests.
Several unoriginal, start-up slide scanning businesses have copied material from my slide scanning page including:
3.) The the person responsible for the html material at digmypics dot com, Mr. Crossen, one of the founders of the company, copied my slide scanning page content to his Web pages, even my business name and others. He kept the copied content there only while the big search engine crawled his pages. I found my content in the search engine's cache of his pages. He was attempting to improve his page ranking with search engines (and save advertising costs) by duplicating my work.
I called him up and sent him several e-mails about this unethical tactic. First he denied it, then called it a "glitch". He now labels his business as "The Most Trusted..." How ironic...
4.) Somebody at OES.org replicated one of my photos to use as the main intro image of a clearly for-profit page. My copyright notice and contact info had been stripped off the image. When I wrote and asked for removal, the person responded with things like "there is a possibility that you are have used the real photographer's image without his/her permission" and "How your border was removed is beyond me," "I'm certain I took it from the net somewhere" This response prompted me to post the details here.
5.) Early in 2006, I was contacted by a well established Web designer (who, for now, shall remain nameless.) She was redesigning a Web site, probably for big pay, since the site was for a large business.
She requested rights to one of my images and offered "credit". I responded quickly, asking exactly how the image would be used, so I could provide a quote. I made it clear that I expected payment for this "for profit" use. She wrote back saying my images would not be needed.
About 6 months later, I looked at the site she had redesigned. Guess what? There was my image, right on the main page.
Based on the other photographs there, she had a photo budget for this redesign. She never bothered to get back to me about usage rights before publishing the photo.
I e-mailed her an invoice ( the price was no longer negotiable ) then called her. The price might have been a little higher than otherwise, since she used it without permission. She sent payment right out.
Hopefully, this was an innocent oversight on her part. I doubt it.
Publishing the details here might make other photographers, who post images to the Web, aware of what to watch out for. It might also make a few designers aware of what they should not do!
6.) Years ago, a person responsible for the site: www.bestintexas.com (currently off-line) copied my photography tips to their site. They removed my copyright notice and replaced it with theirs. If they liked my photography tips, they should have simply made a link to my page.
7.) A few years ago, I came home from work to find one of my photographs on the front page of our local newspaper. The photo was part of an image show-casing a new Web site called Route1saugus.com. This was a for-profit Web site (but it probably never made any money), where my image was used to enhance the page. No one contacted me asking permission. The guilty party claimed "someone gave me the images on a disk."
8.) Joe Fex , pending.
If you find usage of my pictures or writings anywhere on the Web or in print let me know. If it's unauthorized use, you'll be rewarded in one way or another. (Automated text scraper sites not included.)
Chances are, if you have posted popular or worthwhile material on the Web, it has been copied...for profit!
I've confronted at least a dozen people about copying my work to their Web sites. Most remove the work they've copied when I ask them. Some drag their feet or try to get away with just changing my work a bit. Very few offer apologies on their own. In fact no one has. The ones who respond, often blame someone else.
How do a find the copied text and images you might ask? Search engines make it easy. Take random, strings of text from my pages, and search for them using Google. Quotation marks must be added at either end of the string for those types of searches. A search of Google or Yahoo's image search option is another method.
Contact me for permission. Call Jim Harrington at 781-244-5655.
Thank you!
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